Looking for an app that makes sure an app is running?

omarruvalcaba · April 13, 2020, 6:26pm

Hi everyone, I’m looking for an app or script that would check if an app (Paste.app)is running, and if not, launch the app (or notify me). Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Every now and then it will crash and I’ll copy thinking it’s running only to find later my text is not available to paste.

JohnAtl · April 13, 2020, 6:31pm

RescueTime used to die on me periodically. I used this Keyboard Maestro macro to keep it running.

omarruvalcaba · April 13, 2020, 6:45pm

Thank you for sharing John! I hadn’t thought of that. I’m glad I asked and glad I have Keyboard Maestro.

majorgear · March 11, 2021, 2:40pm

This is good. What if the Mac is shutting down? Mine sometimes gets stuck during the shutdown process and I have to take some manual actions to all the system to finish shutting down.

So perhaps "if app is not running and system is not shutting down, launch app "